Gulf Arabic Conversational Telephone Speech
| Item Name: | Gulf Arabic Conversational Telephone Speech |
| Author(s): | Appen Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia |
| LDC Catalog No.: | LDC2006S43 |
| ISBN: | 1-58563-400-X |
| ISLRN: | 860-289-087-911-2 |
| Release Date: | September 19, 2006 |
| Member Year(s): | 2006 |
| DCMI Type(s): | Sound |
| Sample Type: | alaw |
| Sample Rate: | 8000 |
| Data Source(s): | telephone conversations |
| Application(s): | spoken dialogue systems, spoken dialogue modeling, speech recognition, speaker identification |
| Language(s): | Gulf Arabic |
| Language ID(s): | afb |
| License(s): |
LDC User Agreement for Non-Members |
| Online Documentation: | LDC2006S43 Documents |
| Licensing Instructions: | Subscription & Standard Members, and Non-Members |
| Citation: | Appen Pty Ltd, Sydney, and Australia. Gulf Arabic Conversational Telephone Speech LDC2006S43. Web Download. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, 2006. |
Introduction
This database contains 975 Gulf Arabic speakers taking part in spontaneous telephone conversations in Colloquial Gulf Arabic. A total of 976 conversation sides are provided (one speaker appears on two distinct calls). The average duration per side is about 5.7 minutes.
This corpus was collected and transcribed in 2004 by Appen Pty Ltd (Appen), Sydney, Australia.
Data
The single-channel files represent just one side of a normal conversation. The "devtest" set represents a relatively balanced (representative) sample drawn from the total pool of collected calls, based on a test-set selection process applied by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and based on demographic, phone and audit information as provided by Appen.
Samples
For an example of the data contained in this corpus, please listen to this audio sample(wav).